Highlander Pedagogy

I have not been personally educated much about the social justice movement much past the basic information like what you would learn in school. Like the marches and the boycotts put on by Martin Luther King Jr, as well as all his speeches. I have never heard of a place like Highlander, and honestly when looking back on the time period I could hardly believe a place like that even existed because of all the hate surrounding that community. Looking back on all the readings and the documentary that we watched in class there was a lot of information about the early social justice movement and I just wished that our education system cared a little more to implement some more information into the school curriculum. The fact that there were several grouped of white people in the south that were helping out the black community during this time was new information to me and it made me smile honestly. The whole idea that a community like highlander being an outlier in the south was crazy to me I would have thought that there would have been more communities like that in the south. However, after watching the documentary and seeing how the people in the community were treated, I am not surprised that they were not. What surprised me the most was the determination and perseverance of the people of the social justice movement. Especially when it came to punishments like going to jail and getting sprayed by a firefighter hose. I personally do not know if I would be able to keep marching for something if every time I did march or work towards the movement I would be harassed and bullied by everyone in my town. I also envied the boldness of the marchers who stood up to the police who told them that they could only have two marchers in an area and then the marchers just went about their business like nothing ever happened. I wish to be that bold in my life whenever I face my own personal struggles.